"I will have to clean out the truck a little better. My girlfriend says it looks like I had gutted an elk in the drivers seat," he writes.

Madison County Sheriff Roger Thompson says Orr, who used bear spray during the first attack, "did everything he was supposed to do" and while being attacked by the same bear twice is like being struck by lightning twice, Orr is lucky to have survived at all.

"I think he should go out and buy a lottery ticket now," the sheriff says.

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